After a two month stay in Oklahoma, it is time to get back to my Florida home. Unfortunately, there is a hurricane between here and there, so I am searching for a path through the storm. As I do so, I recognize how closely this trip resembles my spiritual journey. First, is the reality of…
Month: September 2024
Truth at the Zoo
While visiting the Omaha Zoo, I peeked into an enclosure for Blue Dart Frogs, saw nothing, and moved on. Then a young boy stepped up to the same window and exclaimed, “Dad, look at all the frogs!” I decided to go back and take a second look. Sure enough, there in plain sight were at…
Doorstops and Espresso Machines
Searching for something heavy to hold open the door to his work shed the old man grabbed an espresso machine his son and daughter had given him on his birthday five years ago. Figuring out how to use it had been too much of a challenge, so he had put it back in the box…
The Billy Mitchell Award
Franklin D. Roosevelt stood before the Kiwanis Club of New York in 1921 and said, “It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever successfully sink a fleet of Navy vessels under combat conditions.” Billy Mitchell disagreed and proposed a series of tests, in which bombing raids would be made against…